1.   The effects of the recession spilled over into almost every aspect of American life.

2.   ...the religious fundamentalism now enthroned in American life.

3.   He ruminated on the terrible wastage that typified American life.

4.   An immigrant family that must condition its traditional attitudes regarding child rearing to the realities of modern American life.

5.   Work is the most thorough and profound organizing principle in American life.

6.   American life is dominated by cars.

7.   Allende, though she still writes in Spanish, speaks English easily and she looks at American life with a bifocal freshness and familiarity.

8.   American life is drenched in advertising, whose deceptions are so widely taken for granted that objecting to them marks you as a hopelessly dour Puritan.

9.   Although it ended more than a century ago, slavery engendered a deep anger that remains near the surface of American life.

10.   Although the current air of prosperity has obscured the mounting inequities of American life, growing economic injustice has been well documented.